Butterworth, George (1905 - 1988)
Aged 17, Butterworth began to work as a caricaturist and sports cartoonist on the County Express in Stockport. From 1932 he worked as ‘Gee Bee’ on the Daily Dispatch, drawing sports cartoons. When the Second World War broke out, Butterworth took over from Sam Wells as the paper’s political cartoonist and also contributed to the Evening Chronicle and Sunday Chronicle. His cartoon ‘Maltese Cross’ in the Daily Dispatch resulted in the island receiving that award in April 1942. Butterworth also illustrated Manchester United Football Club programmes for many years up and until the Munich air disaster. See Butterworth biography by Timothy S. Benson.
Cartoons for sale:
- Caption Displayed
17th Jan. 1952 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
Inflation, punishment, inadequate fines cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
10th Dec. 1947 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
17th Aug. 1948 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- GUIDE TO LONDON (Six Cabinet Ministers are abroad)
15th May 1946 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- HIGH FINANCE, 1945
- £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
23rd April 1933 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
Winston Churchill cartoon.
- NORTH-WEST FRONTIER MAN HUNT
12th July 1945 - £475
- 37cm x 18cm
- Daily Dispatch
Winston Churchill Manchester cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
5th Feb. 1946 - £400
- 29cm x 22cm
- Daily Dispatch
Herbert Morrison cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
25th June 1946 - £450
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
Midsummer's Night Dream cartoon.
- ANOTHER LEGENDARY COUNTRY!
28th June 1943 - £400
- 32cm x 23cm
- Daily Dispatch
- ON WITH THE SHOW
13th June 1946 - £500
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
1st June 1948 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
2nd Oct. 1951 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- THE CURTAIN IS DOWN - Except for a score of seats.
2nd July 1945 - £485
- 32cm x 28cm
- Daily Dispatch
Harold Laski 1945 General Election cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
28th Feb. 1952 - £485
- 38cm x 15cm
- Daily Dispatch
Winston Churchill, Labour Opposition cartoon.
- No Caption, 1951
- £400
- 34cm x 17cm
- Daily Dispatch
Housing Minister Harold Macmillan cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
7th Sept. 1946 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed, 1948
- £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
Uncle Sam and Manny Shinwell cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
24th Feb. 1949 - £400
- 32cm x 25cm
- Daily Dispatch
- "AND HE HUFFED AND HE PUFFED AND HE PUFFED AND HE HUFFED"
21st Feb. 1941 - £420
- 37cm x 21cm
- Daily Dispatch
Fall of Singapore cartoon.
- CHILD'S PLAY, 1951
- £400
- 24cm x 32cm
- Daily Dispatch
Clement Attlee cartoon.
- RUBBER BONES, 1951
- £400
- 20cm x 34cm
- Daily Dispatch 23/11/1951
- SOUVENIR
10th June 1950 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan cartoon.
